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Big questions about our Universe, our planet, life, and humanity. From the Big Bang to where we are going in the future, Big History covers it all.

This site takes a "this day in history" type event and portrays it as a cartoon.

Great site for kids...history games and virtual tours of many historic places including North Pacific Cannery.

Fabulous for use with any subject that can be turned into a story. This is especially good for author projects, history reports, and adaptations of stories. It can be used by teachers from intermediate grades through college, depending on the topic, need, and abilities of the students. Be sure to explore the many links to see how other schools and students have used digital storytelling. Many examples and excellent resources.

Get free help with homework and tests on literature, Shakespeare, science, math, and history. Each literature note includes a book summary, analysis, essays on theme and plot, character analysis, quotes, quiz, and more.

Great infographic explains levels of SAMR (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition) using the example of a history report done with Google Docs.

If you log in you can create and save timelines in World Book Student Online. Just spotted this on the new ERAC Commons. Who knew?

57,000 videos and 7 million photos can be used online for free and shared via twitter, flickr and fb. Can also be downloaded for a small fee.

Sqworl set of quick links created for older students studying Canada Fur Trade.

Sqworl page created for easy student links to resources on the Canada fur trade.

Wiki page I created with links about Canada's Fur Trade suitable for both intermediate and high school.

Great unit on pioneer life in Canada designed for about a grade 3 level.

Help Obama write his inaugural speech. Just for fun...

The teachers at Mountain City have created some great book and novel studies with online questions, printable questions that are easy to convert to Kurzweil format, and suggested activites for each chapter. Many also have links to other websites. Recommended by Maureen LaFleche at the Jan 8 2009 Breeze meeting.

The Week in Rap provides a weekly summary of current events in a hip-hop music video for teens and students. Sometimes called "Weekend Rap" or "Week and Rap."

Students can create a virtual museum box in which to collect items such as text, photos, video, and uploaded items needed to make an argument, describe a person or historical/geographical site etc. Students can also view other museum boxes and comment. For classroom use ideas, see Kelly Tenkley's Jan 06, 2009 post at iLearn Technology. This website was inspired by Thomas Clarkston who carried around a real museum box of artifacts to make a case for the abolition of slavery. It would probably be great for the PG group that's planning to do a Barkerville Unit.

Advice for students on how to create a timeline for historical events.